background: natural background radiation of a particular region is one of the distinctive factors defining the status of environment. eloor island is an industrial area in ernakulum district of the state of kerala, india. the indoor and outdoor gamma level measurements have been carried out for the region for evaluating the annual effective dose to the population residing in this area. material...

Introduction: Internal exposure to radon gas progeny can lead to serious biologic damages to the lung tissue. The aim of this study was to evaluate the absorbed dose by lung tissue due to the exposure from short-lived radioactive products of radon (222Rn) decay using Monte Carlo simulation. Material and Methods: A lung equivalent p...

background in order to maintain and promote social health, special attention should be directed towards risky behaviors and the relevant effective factors especially in high-risk groups. objectives this study was aimed to identify the prevalence of substance abuse and its related factors among adolescents in zahedan, southeast of iran. materials and methods this cross-sectional study included a...

AIMS The aim of this study was to describe the tolerability of high-dose baclofen taken by patients with alcohol disorders during their first year of treatment. METHODS The medical records of all patients prescribed baclofen by one general practitioner were examined and all patients who could be contacted were retrospectively interviewed about adverse effects. RESULTS Of the 146 eligible pa...

Lamotrigine is a novel anticonvulsant initially used in epilepsy treatment. Because of its physiological properties it has subsequently been introduced in pain management and has become an interesting co-analgesic, because it inhibits release of excitatory neurotransmitters, influences different sodium, calcium en potassium channels and elevates the GABA levels. A linear relationship appears to...

Rapidly increasing industrialization and urbanization cause serious environmental pollution. Discharge of polluting material from various industries such as smelting, mining, ore processing, metal plating into the environment without treatment causes pollution can have dangerous effects on balance. The utilization low-cost adsorbents biological materials a replacement for costly traditional met...

In a recent response to Persson and Savulescu's Unfit for the Future, Nicholas Agar argues that moral bioenhancement is dangerous. His grounds for this are that normal moral judgement should be privileged because it involves a balance of moral subcapacities; moral bioenhancement, Agar argues, involves the enhancement of only particular moral subcapacities, and thus upsets the balance inherent i...

In this paper, we argue that prototypes can hinder, rather than aid effective communication. The dangers are: (1) prototypes may contain hidden assumptions which might surface too late; (2) obtaining feedback in the context of use is prohibitively expensive and rarely done; and (3) partly as a consequence of these problems, prototypes cause a focus on displays and other surface features of comp...